Exercise 4.m

Often when given a writing assignment i procrastinate in till the day before the assignment is due. If i am good about it i will start maybe two or three days before the assignment is due but that is rarely ever the case. Before i write a paper i like to first make a list of my thoughts where i go into minor detail about what i am going to say about these ideas. Then i arrange my ideas in the order in which they will appear in my paper. After looking at all of my thoughts and ideas on paper i come up with my thesis. After i have my thesis and thoughts written out on paper i then proceed to write my paper. I like to write my papers at my computer in my room. I like to be in a comfortable and familiar place when i write. While writing my papers i often have music playing because i feel music helps me get in the zone which then i am able to write papers faster. I often reread my paragraphs and sentences after i write them to make sure they make sense. After i finish writing my paper i reread over it two or three times. I often end up moving paragraphs around and correcting grammatical mistakes. Often only my peers revise my work when a teacher plans for students to bring in their papers and have a peer review session.

Workshop Draft

I think a workshop draft should contain the major ideas and arguments of a final paper. I would expect a draft to have structure but since it being only a draft the structure may be poor. The purpose of a draft is for one to organize and write out all of their thoughts. Often the audience of a draft is one's own peers because they are the ones that will provide feedback. A final draft differs in that it is free of grammatical errors. Also the organization of ideas is clear, concise and makes sense.
I would tell the writer of Essay R that more sources would help strengthen his argument and make it more accurate. As well as that he needs to focus more on wrestling in the 1980's. Another thing i would tell the author is that he lacks a clear thesis and his argument for how wrestling got better is weak.

Essay R Grade and Rationale

I would give this essay a C+.

I thought this paper was nothing above average. I felt there was a lack of structure. The author never presented a clear and concise argument between the two subjects in comparison in the beginning two paragraphs of the essay. As well as never presented an outline of what was to be compared. Reading through the paper I felt that it lacked interesting and captivating topic sentences, for example the topic sentence on line 51 was dull. Another problem i had with the paper is that it never mentioned what the similarities were between professional wrestling today versus wrestling in the 80's. I noticed there were grammatical errors on lines 17, 44 and 55. These are the reasons why i gave this paper a C+.

Exercise 2.h

1. i imagine the rhetorical situation of this text to be moderate and to appeal to those who read the article and are undecided about who to vote for. The writers main purpose seems to be to inform his readers that the article "Do not be fooled by Clinton again" was not very persuasive to undecided voters. His audience are college students who read the article he is reviewing.
2. I would guess the genre to be persuasive writing. I have never written in this type of genre.
3. He could of used satire to prove his point of how the article was not persuasive.